| NOUN | a palmette | palmettes |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Flame palmettes were then introduced into friezes of floral motifs in replacement of the regular palmette.
- The pillar capital in Bharhut, dated to the 2nd century BCE during the Sunga Empire period, also incorporates many of these characteristics, with a central anta capital with many rosettes, beads-and-reels, as well as a central palmette design.
- Alois Riegl argued in his "Stilfragen" that acanthus ornament originated as a sculptural version of the palmette, and only later began to resemble "Acanthus spinosus".
- The semi-columns have Corintianesque capitals with a palmette ornament between the scrolls.
- Among the oldest forms of the palmette in ancient Egypt was a 'rosette' or daisy-like lotus flower emerging from a 'V' of foliage or petals resembling the akhet hieroglyph depicting the setting or rising sun at the point where it touches the two mountains of the horizon – 'dying', being 'reborn' and giving life to the earth.
- The acroterion may take a wide variety of forms, such as a statue, tripod, disc, urn, palmette or some other sculpted feature.
- The Sivayasa ayagapata shows clearly two triratna symbols on top of the torana, as well as a central flame palmette design.
- The flame palmette design that was adopted in Hellenistic architecture and became very popular on a wide geographical scale, especially following the conquests of Alexander the Great.
- The pillar capital in Bharhut, dated to the 2nd century BCE during the Sunga Empire period, also incorporates many of these characteristics, with a central anta capital with many rosettes, beads-and-reels, as well as a central palmette design.
- The cheek guard has a palmette design in which may be seen a curled serpent that appears to be horned.
- The gate is decorated with the head of the woman, capped by a stylized oval-shaped palmette.
- The scope of adoption goes from designs such as the bead and reel pattern, the central flame palmette design and a variety of other moldings, to the lifelike rendering of animal sculpture and the design and function of the Ionic anta capital in the palace of Pataliputra.
- The Armorican Celtic style in northwestern Gaul also developed from Celtic designs from the Rhine valley, themselves derived from earlier Greek prototypes such as the wine scroll and split palmette.
- The ornament is palmette, an artistic motif based on the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.
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